Faucet



(No Model.)

A'. N. WRITING.

PAUGET.

Patented May 23 .lh A d N. PETERS4 Plwwumagmphnr, wnnmgmn. D. C.

NTTED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

ARTHUR N. WHITING, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR. TO. THE HAYDEN COMPANY, OF MASSACHUSETTS.

FAUCET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 258,540, dated May 23, 1882. Application tiled September 19, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, ARTHUR N. WRITING, ot' Boston, Suffolk county,Massaehusetts, have invented au Improvement in Faucet s, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has reference to fancetshaving vertically-reeiprocating valves; and it consists in a valve adapted to reciprocate and provided with grooves on its sides,.in combination with a faucet having three branches, one of which acts as the easing for the valve, and is provided with corresponding grooves, said valve being guided and prevented from turning by means of short cylinders or rods of metalfwhich t loosely between the grooves on the valve and casing, all of which is more fully set forth in the following specification and shown in the accompanying drawings, which form part thereof.

The object of this invention is to provide simple and effective means to guide the reciprocating valve and prevent it from turning.

In the drawings, Figure l is a longitudinal section of my improved faucet on line y y. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan of same on line a: az. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the valve and its guide cylinders or rods.

The faucet is furnished with thrre passages or tubes, one of which, A, is the inductiontube. A is the eduction-tube, and B is the valvecasing.

C is the diaphragm or wall, which separates the induction and eduction passages, and is provided with the usual aperture, c, over which the valve D closes. The valve D is provided on the bottom with the usual leather or composition packing-ring E, which forms a Water-tight joint with aperture c, and at the top with a nut, Gr, forming part ot' the same, and between the two is an aperture, F, to allow easy passage of water upon opening the valve. Upon either side of the nut G of valve D are grooves Q, made semicircular, or nearly so, which are partly or wholly closed at the bottom, as shown in Fig. 3.

The casing or tube B is also provided with corresponding grooves, P, which extend from the top to a short distance of the diaphragm or dividing-wall C.

After the valve D has been set in place and cylinders or rods of wire O, in length equal to the nut G, are shipped loosely into the holes thus formed, as shown in Fig. 2. The nut is now enabled to reciprocate without turning.

The spindle H is provided on the top with a handle, l, on the middle with a collar, H', and on the bottom with a screw-thread, h, which is adapted to work in the nut G of the valve D, as shown in Fig. l. A disk, K, encircles the stem or spindle H and ts into a recess, J, in the casing B, and upon this lies the packing L, preferably of cloth, and yet above this is a disk, M, of metal, and upon this latter the collar H' of the spindle H rests, and is prevented from vertical movement by the cap N,

casing B. f

When the valve D is screwed up to its highest limit the rods O are held between the grooves Q and l?, and rest at the top against the plate K and at the bottom on the exten sion of the valve. (Shown in Fig. 3.) As the spindleis turned the valve D descends, butdoes does not rotate, and the rods O descend with the valve, forming a positive guide forit at all times. Therefore with a movementofthe valve the rods are stationary with respect to the valve, but movable with respect to the casing, since they fall by gravity.

Having now described my invention, what ARTHUR N. WHITING.

Witnesses WM. H. GOODWIN, P. H. BOYLE.

the grooves Q and P brought to register, the

which fits over it, and is screwed fast to the I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let- 

